Comment & Opinion

Starbucks is getting a “venti” sized handout from the state of Tennessee to build a new corporate office in Nashville. The company will receive $30 mi...

At a gas station off Interstate 70, I watch as a cousin of mine in Bentleyville drops a twenty into a Pace-O-Matic console. This slightly bedraggled P...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Reports of a Republican congressional revolt — like Mark Twain once famously said of a false newspaper report of his death — are gr...

It has become increasingly hard to use the word integrity when describing college athletics, and much of that is the NCAA's own doing. Unimaginably, t...

The most encouraging redistricting news of the year came from two states that did nothing. Illinois lawmakers adjourned without drawing new congressio...

Across northeast Pennsylvania, people are deeply concerned about the rapid push for large-scale data center development in our communities. I share th...

I have watched other people with their pets and their shared lives seem simple compared to mine! I suppose it’s not really true, because when you shar...

Two decades after the first casino opened in Pennsylvania — paving the way for many older residents to get hooked on slot machines — gambling interest...

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted by a 215-208 margin, with four Republicans joining in the majority, to approve a war powers “concur...

BOSTON (TNS) — President Trump’s decision to leave a long, aggressive interview with the slanted, outdated “Meet the Press” show drew the usual outrag...

Former Vice President Mike Pence is not merely promoting a new book. He is making a final argument for a vision of conservatism that he believes is sl...

WATERVILLE, Maine (TNS) — Since 2016, when Donald Trump shattered the Democrats’ blue wall by winning working-class voters across the Midwest, a cotta...

President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion budget request for the military is by far the largest in U.S. history, but under a law passed during Trump’s fi...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s easy to understand why so many graduates are booing commencement speakers who tell them how great AI is. They face a brutal job ...

Sunday, June 7, marked 100 days since the start of the war with Iran. President Donald Trump may prefer to call it a “conflict,” but after more than t...

As we approach America’s 250th birthday, it is time to reflect on how this nation began. Our democracy was not born in a sterile state office building...

Pride in being an American drops the younger you get, a new Quinnipiac poll confirms — a fact that confirms what a terrible job older generations have...

Con artists steal millions every year from vulnerable Americans, but it increasingly appears that the real money is in ripping off U.S. taxpayers. As ...

In an emergency, time matters, but so does getting a patient to the right level of care. In North Central Pennsylvania, where long distances and rural...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Could there be a better metaphor for the plight of the out-of-power Democratic Party than the fact that it's now a week into debati...